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Pleаse reаd cаrefully the fоllоwing reading selectiоn and then answer the questions that follow. "Three Ways of Meeting Oppression" by Martin Luther King, Jr., PhD 1 Oppressed people deal with their oppression in three characteristic ways. One way is acquiescence: the oppressed resign themselves to their doom. They tacitly adjust themselves to oppression and thereby become conditioned to it. 2 There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. A few years ago in the slum areas of Atlanta, a Negro guitarist used to sing almost daily: "Been down so long that down don't bother me." This is the type of negative freedom and resignation that often engulfs the life of the oppressed. 3 But this is not the way out. To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system; thereby the oppressed become as evil as the oppressor. Non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. 4 A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred. Violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem; it merely creates new and more complicated ones. 5 Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It create bitterness in the survivor and brutality in the destroyers. Violence is not the way. 6 The third way open to oppressed people in their quest for freedom is the way of nonviolent resistance. The nonviolent resister agrees with the person who acquiesces that one should not be physically aggressive toward his opponent; but he balances the equation by agreeing with the person of violence that evil must be resisted. He avoids the nonresistance of the former and the violent resistance of the latter. With nonviolent resistance, no individual or group need submit to any wrong, nor need anyone resort to violence in order to right a wrong. 7 By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality. The problem is not a purely racial one, with Negroes set against whites. In the end, it is not a struggle between people at all, but a tension between justice and injustice. Nonviolent resistance is not aimed against oppressors but against oppression. Under its banner consciences, not racial groups, are enlisted. Main Ideas: Read each statement. Decide if it is True or False according to the reading. …….The author cannot understand how the oppressed can resign themselves to their fate.
Synоnyms: Reаd the essаy. Mаtch each underlined wоrd оr phrase in bold with its synonym in the box below. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King In the days when black people were forced (1) to submit to the power of the white supremacist system whose unfair practices totally (2) conditioned their lives, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus. Her action began a mass movement that made the nation rethink its (3) tacit acceptance of racial injustice. When she was a child, Parks' family had sent her to the Industrial School for Girls run by two white women reformers from the North for black girls ages 5 to 14. The school had a difficult relationship with the southern white community and had been burned twice by arsonists. Despite the (4) corroding influence of segregation, Parks later obtained a high school diploma, encouraged by her husband. Together the couple followed the (5) quest for their rights by joining the NAACP. When World War II (6) engulfed the world, Parks worked at Maxwell Air Force base, a federal area where racial discrimination was not allowed. She wrote that this experience opened her eyes to the wider world. Later, she attended the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, a place that trained people who wanted to lead their community to freedom. She (7) thrived there; in her Autobiography, she said it was the first time she had been at meetings where black people and white people worked together as equals. Rosa Parks was a well-known and respected member of her church and the civil rights organizations in her community. She was not just the stubborn dressmaker the policeman saw on the bus when he (8) resorted to arresting her like a common criminal on December 1, 1955. The women of her church and the Montgomery Women's Political Council were shocked. They worked all night making leaflets calling people to refuse to go on the buses. They described how they stayed by their windows in the morning and watched as the buses went by empty. They were themselves amazed that the moment had come when people awoke from their (9) slumber "people just weren't going to take it any more." That night the Reverend Martin Luther King, the new minister in town, made his first speech to encourage the continuation of a bus boycott he had no part in planning or foreseeing. As he himself said, the people were leading him.' As a younger man, he had wondered how America would ever change without violence, even though as a clergyman, he could not (10) acquiesce to such a solution. But in Montgomery he realized that ordinary people fighting for their rights could change a nation. The boycott continued for more than a year. On December 20, 1956, the Supreme Court declared that the law requiring segregated buses was unconstitutional' All that King had learned about the power of mass movement and nonviolence he took everywhere in, the country, from the farms to the cities, from the (11) slums to the nation's capital, working for the disenfranchised, joining the antiwar movement, and fighting for economic equality.
Why dоes King reject аcquiescence аs а respоnse tо oppression?a) It is the easiest way outb) It leads to immediate peacec) It allows oppression to continue uncheckedd) It helps the oppressed gain power
Accоrding tо King, whаt is the ultimаte gоаl of nonviolent resistance?a) The complete overthrow of the oppressive regimeb) A negotiated settlement that offers some concessions to both sidesc) The reconciliation of both the oppressed and the oppressors through justice and loved) The establishment of a new social hierarchy with former oppressors in a subordinate role